Sr. Performance Tester

Job Title: Sr. Performance Tester Location: Mostly Remote (Onsite 1–2x/month in Reston, VA) Company Overview: Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned, global IT staffing and recruiting firm serving enterprise clients across the USA and Canada. Project Description: Seeking a Performance Test Engineer with extensive knowledge in both Tricentis NeoLoad and LoadRunner for a leading healthcare/insurance client. The selected candidate will lead performance testing, performance engineering, and scalability analysis for enterprise applications, cloud-native platforms, data warehouse solutions, and data lake ecosystems — defining test strategies, designing workload models, and analyzing system behavior across application, database, infrastructure, and cloud layers. Key Responsibilities: Develop and execute end-to-end performance test strategies for enterprise applications, AWS-native applications, APIs, microservices, data warehouse platforms, and data lake pipelines Design and execute load, stress, endurance, scalability, resiliency, and capacity tests using NeoLoad and other approved tools; automate execution within CI/CD pipelines Analyze performance and resiliency results across application, database, middleware, network, cloud, and infrastructure layers; identify bottlenecks and communicate recommendations to stakeholders Support performance engineering for cloud modernization, data platform migrations, and high-volume processing solutions Validate performance, scalability, and resiliency of AWS services, containerized workloads, data ingestion jobs, ETL/ELT pipelines, and database platforms (PostgreSQL, etc.) Provide technical leadership for high-visibility engagements; lead defect triage and root-cause analysis for performance issues Mentor team members on NeoLoad scripting, cloud observability, test automation integration, and continuous performance testing Mandatory Skills: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field 5+ years of experience in performance testing, resiliency testing, performance engineering, or quality engineering for enterprise applications Hands-on experience with Tricentis NeoLoad and LoadRunner Strong Cloud/CI-CD performance test automation experience, particularly AWS Database performance validation experience with large-scale data warehouse or data lake environments Scripting/programming/query language proficiency (JavaScript, Java, Groovy, Python, SQL, or shell scripting) Strong written and verbal communication skills Knowledge of performance testing lifecycle, SDLC, Agile delivery, and non-functional requirements validation Nice-to-Have Skills: Experience with service virtualization, test data management, and workload modeling Familiarity with cloud monitoring/observability tools and performance reporting dashboards Knowledge of code quality and promotion practices